If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.